Cold Case Breakthrough: Why the Skelton Brothers' Father Now Faces Murder Charges

On Thanksgiving weekend 2010, three little brothers—Andrew (9), Alexander (7), and Tanner (5) Skelton—vanished from their father’s home in Morenci, Michigan. What began as a bitter custody battle ended with John Skelton hospitalized, a self-deletion note, and a story about an “underground group” that no one has ever found. Fifteen years later, in November 2025, just weeks before Skelton was set to walk free after serving his original sentence, he was charged with three counts of open murder and tampering with evidence.

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